About

About:

David is an MA graduate in Film & Television from Edinburgh College of Art. His first short film Fight or Flight, a documentary on amateur boxing, was selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2005 where it was nominated for the Saltire Scottish Shorts Award. His next film project Five Steps won the Halloween Horror Challenge Award and featured on the Best of Scottish Shorts selection at Encounters Short Film Festival 2008.

Since then he has been directing short films, award winning commercials and behind the scene documentaries for feature films. His graphic novel series BOAT has been nominated for best graphic novel at the 2015/16/18 SICBA comic book awards and is supported by Creative Scotland.

He recently directed ‘Kings of Content’, a broadcast documentary for Red Bull TV, featuring a selection of online stars. His short film ‘Boat' premiered in competition at Glasgow short film festival 2015 where it was nominated for best Scottish Short and the Channel 4 innovation in storytelling award. It won a Scottish BAFTA new talent award and best VFX at Mumbai shorts film festival and was screened internationally at Tokyo short shorts & Asia film festival.

He is currently in development with ‘Out there’ his first feature film project that was selected for

development as part of the European Genre Forum 2017 taking place in Amsterdam, Zagreb & Tallinn.